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    Vaio FW GPU questions

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by synaesthetic, Sep 7, 2010.

  1. synaesthetic

    synaesthetic Notebook Evangelist

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    A good friend of mine has a Vaio FW and she's been playing the FFXIV beta, but she wants to pull more performance out of this thing.

    I know that the GPU is undervolted and underclocked.

    Is there any way to reverse this? Does a hacked vBIOS exist for the Vaio FW with Mobility Radeon 4560 1GB?

    If she could run it at least at stock clocks (and possibly overclock it?) I think it'd help.
     
    synaesthetic, Sep 7, 2010
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    You can use RivaTuner to run it at stock clocks. I had different results depending on the Catalyst driver. 9.12 oc'd just fine at stock. >10.x caused the gpu to crash with a black screen.
     
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    synaesthetic Notebook Evangelist

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    Techpowerup's AMD GPU Clock Tool won't work... I use that tool to OC the 5650 in my Gateway, works fine, but it's giving my friend a "SetClock failed!" error.
     
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    SomeRandomDude, Sep 7, 2010
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    Directed her to that, and now she's getting a "Windows requires a digitally signed driver" error which prevents her from installing RivaTuner.

    It works fine on my PC (even though I don't use it, I use AMD GPU Clock Tool, but RivaTuner installed just fine) and I use a 64-bit Windows, too.
     
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    When booting, she should press F8 to bring up the boot options menu, and there disable Driver Signature Enforcement. I don't remember if you have to do this every time, but it will allow RivaTuner to install with no problems.
     
    SomeRandomDude, Sep 7, 2010
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    Yep, every time you reboot you have to disable it.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Sep 8, 2010
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